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'A matter of honour': Women forced to stay in flooded Pakistan village
Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)
But they have refused pleas to evacuate. Leaving for a relief camp would mean the women of the village mingling with men outside their families, residents told ...
11 Iranian pilgrims and their driver killed in Iraq crash
Sep 11, 2022 (AFP)
The vehicle carrying the pilgrims slammed into the parked truck in Babil province south of Baghdad, provincial health authorities spokesman Ahmed al-Jibouri tol...
Syrian refugees in Turkey plan caravan to reach EU
Sep 10, 2022 (AFP)
Plans are being drawn up online via a Telegram channel, set up six days ago and followed by almost 70,000 people. Organisers are calling on people to bring slee...
Energy and food crises reshaping insurance: Swiss Re
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
Slammed first by the Covid-19 pandemic and now by the war raging in Ukraine, the once globalised and interconnected global economy is fragmenting in a multi-pol...
Mexican lawmakers approve contentious security reform
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador created the new security force in 2019 with a civilian command to replace federal police accused of corruption and human r...
Downpours and mudslides hamper China earthquake rescue mission
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
The 6.6-magnitude quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a depth of 10 kilometres on Monday, accordin...
Fears of shelling, radiation on a Ukraine maternity ward
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
Now the 30-year-old and her husband are stocking up on potassium iodide tablets in case of a radiation emergency from the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power stat...
Zaporizhzhia accident would impact neighbouring countries: Ukraine
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
The Zaporizhzhia power plant was occupied by Russian troops in March and has been shelled in recent weeks, with Ukraine and Russia blaming each other for the at...
Shame, misery as Pakistan floods destroy toilets; UN preparing for worse
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
In Punjab province, dozens of tents are perched in the area around a small rural railway station -- the only dry land on a horizon of water, reached only by a s...
Pregnant women caught in Pakistan floods desperate for aid
Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)
The camp, in the grounds of a small railway station on the outskirts of Fazilpur in Pakistan's Punjab province, is the only high ground in a landscape of water,...
A ruff deal: Hong Kong exodus sparks surge in abandoned pets
Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)
The two mongrels are victims of a surge in pet abandonments as the city experiences an exodus of residents due to China's crackdown on dissent as well as some o...
US military says preparing aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
"CENTCOM is sending an assessment team to Islamabad to determine what potential support DoD (the US Department of Defense) can provide... as part of the United ...
In Louisiana, the first US climate refugees find new safe haven
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
"I'm very excited. I can't wait to just move on in," Bourg told AFP. "I've been waiting for this day forever." Bourg is one of about a dozen Native Americans fr...
Women's group tackles taboo subject to aid Pakistan flood victims
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
Over 30 million people have been affected by floods that cover a third of the country following record monsoon rains, with hundreds of thousands made homeless. ...
Lives swept away: rescued tourists recount Pakistan flood horror
Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)
They had swapped the sticky Lahore summer for the cooler climes of the northeastern mountains last week when they became embroiled in one of Pakistan's worst di...
'Second life': helicopters rescue the stranded from Pakistan valleys
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
Unprecedented rain in the Swat Valley turned rivers into raging torrents that washed away roads and bridges, cutting off tourists and residents from nearby town...
Risk of radioactive leak at Ukraine nuclear plant: operator
Aug 27, 2022 (AFP)
Energoatom said Moscow's troops had "repeatedly shelled" the site of the plant in southern Ukraine over the past day, whilst Russia' defence ministry claimed Ky...
Fukushima debris removal delayed by another year
Aug 26, 2022 (AFP)
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) had planned to begin extracting radioactive debris from one of the reactors this year -- already later than the original 2021 st...
Storm forces Philippine schools to shut day after reopening
Aug 23, 2022 (AFP)
Severe tropical storm Ma-on struck the northeast coast of Luzon around mid-morning, raking the largely agricultural region with gusts of up to 185 kilometres (1...
Five pilgrims killed in landslide at Iraq Muslim shrine
Aug 21, 2022 (AFP)
After more than 24 hours of digging through collapsed rocks, wood and other debris, "we have found five bodies," civil defence General Abdelrahman Jawdat told A...
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